One of the greatest qualities of Colorado’s Cajun Slamgrass legends Leftover Salmon is their ability to evolve with sincere versatility. Founding members Vince Herman and Drew Emmitt have taken the band to higher creative peaks, with new material (the fantastic Aquatic Hitchhiker release) and welcoming great musicians in that really understand how to play their… Continue reading Leftover Salmon | Boulder Theater | 11/30/2013
On Monday night in New Orleans, the House of Blues was graced with the presence of one of the next generation’s blues guitar heroes, Gary Clark Jr. Clark, who spent his years learning guitar in Austin, Texas, was preceded onstage by fellow Texans the Moeller Brothers, both bands lending a similar southern blues rock sound… Continue reading Gary Clark Jr. brings the blues to the House of Blues
Musicians that decide to go the solo route, all by their looooooooooooooonesome, are deserving of respect just for the sake of displaying the confidence it takes to share their creativity and talents to make good things happen. Solo acts have to deal with huge expectations ranging from thousands of folks in a big venue looking… Continue reading Michael McFarland | A Failed Breakup | Review
Certain casual fans of the Creole Rock Granddaddy Jamband Little Feat may be under the false impression that the band’s true color died along with founding guitarist, singer, de-facto bandleader Lowell George in 1979. After all, the band’s Dixie Chicken (1973), Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (1975), and Time Loves A Hero (1977) albums were… Continue reading Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett | Cervantes Other Side | Review
Some things never change. It’s already out that Mazzy Star‘s Seasons of Your Day—their first album in some seventeen-odd years—is a lark’s call back to ’82 and the Paisley Underground, boasting the same beautiful shoegaze melodies behind She Hangs Brightly and So Tonight That I Might See that so endeared singer Hope Sandoval, guitarist David… Continue reading Mazzy Star | Paradise Rock Club | Boston, MA | 11/19/13 | Review
BIG Something sounds like Incubus and 311 had a baby and played moe. for the kid on repeat the whole time he was chilling in the womb—interesting offspring, to say the least.The six-piece is definitely a touring band at heart, and you catch the vibe early on that their self-titled player is a pretty accurate… Continue reading BIG Something | BIG Something | New Music Review
Welcome to Cowabunga is a short EP (only three tracks deep), so we’re really not getting a full lay of the land here, just a quick tour de psychedelia. Still, the set runs long enough to reveal some telling references—start to finish, Cowabunga could’ve been My Morning Jacket’s doing if (lead singer)’d been smokin’ a… Continue reading Sol Cat | Welcome to Cowabunga | New Music Review
With twenty-one records released through the genre bending marathon existence that is Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, the band has plenty of material to choose from. Original founder and ivory tickler Brian Haas, along with his well-versed cohorts, dug deep into their songbook for a set of re-worked classics spanning their twenty-year career last Thursday at… Continue reading Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey | Dazzle | Denver, CO | 11/14/13 | Review
If the Colorado Bluegrass Community wasn’t already tried as strong, this month represented a milestone for community support. Last month’s “100 Year Flood” damaged and displaced thousands in Boulder County. The worst was the devastation in Lyons, Colorado, home of the Planet Bluegrass Ranch and much of the Colorado Music Roots community. The Ranch hosts… Continue reading Hot Rize | Live in Kansas 1986 | Review
Few people are truly aware of the extent of Buddy Guy‘s influence. If you do not think that he is one of the greatest guitarist’s of all time, then your favorite guitarist probably does. Without this legend, other legends such as Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page would not have been… Continue reading Buddy Guy – Rhythm, Blues, & Boulder
